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Four reasons to impeach Trump

Ventura
Published 6:06 p.m. PT Jan. 29, 2018

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., left, and Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday.(Photo: AP PHOTO)

Terry Paulson says we should celebrate Trump because he “continues to make things happen.” One of the main things he has made happen is to make Americans mistrust him deeply. Here are four reasons, out of hundreds, to impeach Trump:

Trump hates the Constitution. The GOP-controlled Senate violated Article 2 so it could deny Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, allowing Trump to nominate Neil Gorsuch, who promises to mimic Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch is not an “originalist” and neither was Scalia.

Trump lies frequently and deliberately. Trump’s history of using “fake news” began in 2008 when he declared Barack Obama was a noncitizen. A more recent Trump lie is that he and his associates met in Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russians to protest Russian government policies blocking adoptions by U.S. couples, when the actual reason was to find “dirt” about Hillary Clinton.

Trump is losing it mentally. When he taunts “Little Rocket Man” that the U.S. will incinerate North Korea with a pre-emptive nuclear attack, he means it literally. Nobody can stop him, short of using the 25th Amendment.

Trump’s new tax law will harm most Americans over 62. These “forgotten Americans” will suffer cutbacks in Social Security and Medicare in order to pay back the $1.5 trillion borrowed to pay for the permanent tax cuts, which benefit rich corporations, while individual tax cuts will be eventually phased out.

Michael Sullivan, Ventura

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